Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embittered and egocentric but inwardly sympathetic hero in both, and both plots concentrate on the efforts of the other characters to enlist his desperately needed "hard resourcefulness" on the side of the anti-Nazi underground. The center of the action in both movies is a saloon that employs a wise and loyal piano player and a patriotic, emotional bartender. Both films include a hated Nazi (or Vichy) officer, an admired underground leader and his beautiful wife who need Bogart's help, a vicious cat-and-mouse police interrogation scene, and a phone call at gunpoint to assure a safe...
...prevent such a situation as L'Affaire Eisenman from recurring, the HCUA would be wise to take two steps...
...Wise in the Ways. Within 48 hours after the robbery. New York police had got a tip and picked up three suspects: Roger Clark, 29. Allan Kuhn, 26, and Jack ("Murph the Surf") Murphy, 27, all habitués of Miami Beach spas. They were lean, tanned fun lovers who apparently made their living as beach boys and instructors in swimming, surfing and undersea diving. All were members of a loose fraternity of similarly inclined young men who earn untidy amounts of money entertaining lonely middle-aged ladies...
...police could not hold the trio after the museum robbery without evidence, and so let them go back to Miami on bail. Nevertheless, Murph the Surf and his two friends were tailed constantly. Police suspected that the boys, wise in the ways of Gulf Stream currents and coral reefs, might be stashing their loot beneath...
...Busy to Sign. Compared with the $1.7 billion economic aid program of the U.S., and even the combined aid programs of other Western nations, IDA is still pretty small potatoes. But it is making loans that would not other wise be granted for projects that might not otherwise be built, and many of the projects promise to bring enormous returns to the countries involved. There is far less likelihood that the U.S. will ever get much in return-either in hard currency or lasting gratitude-for its contributions which account for 32% of all IDA funds. When Kenya was granted...